Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

LECT2 drives haematopoietic stem cell expansion and mobilization via regulating the macrophages and osteolineage cells

  • Xin-Jiang Lu,
  • Qiang Chen,
  • Ye-Jing Rong,
  • Guan-Jun Yang,
  • Chang-Hong Li,
  • Ning-Yi Xu,
  • Chao-Hui Yu,
  • Hui-Ying Wang,
  • Shun Zhang,
  • Yu-Hong Shi,
  • Jiong Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12719
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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How extramedullar cytokines regulate hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) homeostasis is unclear. Here, the authors show that the cytokine leukocyte cell-derived chemotaxin 2 regulates HSC expansion and mobilisation via tumour necrosis factor and interaction with CD209a in macrophages.